Almost half of Americans have used a prescription drug in the past month
Almost one in two people in the U.S. used one or more prescription drugs in the last month between 2015–2016, according to a new National Center for Health Statistics Survey. But that’s actually a drop from 10 years prior, when 48.3% of Americans used prescription meds in 2007–2008.
But perhaps the most interesting part of the report is how the most common drugs prescribed varies by age. More than one in 10 young and middle-aged adults ages 20 to 59 took antidepressants, while almost half of adults aged 60 and up were on lipid-lowering drugs to treat high cholesterol.
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